{"id":72558,"date":"2017-06-05T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72558"},"modified":"2017-06-05T07:51:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T11:51:44","slug":"your-monday-morning-update-from-norkiland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72558","title":{"rendered":"Your Monday Morning Update from Norkiland"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72366\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nimitz-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nimitz-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nimitz-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nimitz-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nimitz.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">170403-N-NI812-226<br \/>PACIFIC OCEAN (April 3, 2017) Ships assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group participate in a strait transit exercise in the Pacific Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Ian Kinkead\/Released)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is much to be said about keeping a close eye on your neighbor, especially if you suspect that he\u2019s got a screw loose.<\/p>\n<p>In the continuing story of the hermit kingdom known as North Korea, NDtBF continues to make threats against his neighbors, including Japan, and the USofA, both verbally and by launching missiles. This most recent tantrum of his has to do with our successful anti-missile missile test in the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/812889\/North-Korea-USA-live-updates-latest-news-Kim-Jong-un-Donald-Trump-missiles-war-sanctions\">http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/812889\/North-Korea-USA-live-updates-latest-news-Kim-Jong-un-Donald-Trump-missiles-war-sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those war exercises we\u2019re engaging in, which we do on a periodic basis anyway, are upsetting his apple cart. \u00a0There\u2019s a nice photo of US and Japanese bird farms engaged in exercises in the slide show in the attached article.<\/p>\n<p>Per the Express\/UK article, Norkiland \u2013 meaning Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird \u2013 has rejected the latest sanction from the UN and is hellbent on developing its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>El Supremo Kim Abondanzaa is also making the Russians nervous, per Deputy Defense Minister Fomin. He considers the missile tests to be\u00a0a direct threat to Russia. They\u2019re willing to sell armored tracked vehicles to him, but they don\u2019t want to have to deal with his antics, any more than anyone else does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/06\/04\/russia-says-north-koreas-nukes-are-direct-threat.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/06\/04\/russia-says-north-koreas-nukes-are-direct-threat.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An even\u00a0bigger issue is that Japan is now holding evacuation drills because of Lord Satsquaasher\u2019s missile tests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/asia\/north-korea-missile-tests-japan-holds-evacuation-drills\/news-story\/29de18dc4ae45a84c15c5323b29aa977\">http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/asia\/north-korea-missile-tests-japan-holds-evacuation-drills\/news-story\/29de18dc4ae45a84c15c5323b29aa977<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough that the nation of Japan is still rebuilding after the 2011 earthquake. The school kids have been doing earthquake drills since Day One. But that was Mother Nature moving the furniture around. Not much you can do about it, and Japan has done a fine job of recovery in the areas of Honshu that were so devastated.<\/p>\n<p>But this? This Inglorious Fat Little Basterd aiming a rocket at Japan as a test under the pretense that he\u2019s being threatened by Whoosies and Whatsises is not just unacceptable, it\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if he\u2019s making the Russians nervous and pissing off the Chinese, he is not following in Daddy Kim\u2019s footsteps, nor in Grandpa Kim\u2019s, either, and he won\u2019t get the big 150-foot copper-colored statue in Pyongyang Square.<\/p>\n<p>Someone please tell me the little bugger hasn\u2019t reproduced yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is much to be said about keeping a close eye on your neighbor, especially if &hellip; <a title=\"Your Monday Morning Update from Norkiland\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72558\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Monday Morning Update from Norkiland<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}